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1.3. GOAL 3: HOW TO WRITE A MASTER’S THESIS? 5• word order in sentences• use of articles• punctuation• useful words and expressionsOther important topics??Idea: personally selected exercises!1.3 Goal 3: How to write a master’s thesis?Writing a master’s thesis is not just writing, but you have to read a lot ofmaterial, make experiments, and analyze the results.The process has the same phases as a software project or any problem solvingactivity:1. Defining the problem: Discuss with your supervisor and define whatis the problem. Try to understand it in a larger context: other relatedproblems and subproblems. Read some introductory article about thetopic or select the main books written about your topic. You canalready generate several ideas how to solve it, but don’t fix anything,yet.2. Specification: Specify your topic carefully. Don’t take too large topic!Invent a preliminary title for your thesis and define the content in acoarse level (main chapters). Ask your supervisor’s approval! Decidewith your supervisor what material you should read or what experimentsto make.3. Design: Define the content more carefully: all sections and a brief descriptionwhat you will write in each of them. Define the main conceptsyou will need and fix the notations. Then you can write the chaptersin any order you want. Make also a work plan: what you will do andwhen.4. Implementation: You can write the thesis after you have read allmaterial or made all experiments. However, you can begin to writesome parts already when you are working. Often you have to changeyour design plan, but it is just life! Ask feedback from your supervisor,when your work proceeds.